CHAPTER 23

Exploit Opportunities Arising From New Technologies

LEARNING FROM

Larry Page

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Google cofounder and current CEO Larry Page, born in 1973, and the company’s other cofounder, Sergey Brin, strikingly demonstrated the hidden power inherent in being quick to seize on and then exploit opportunities presented by new technologies. Google not only dominates the Internet search engine market, but also the online advertising market. Today, Google has its hand in pretty much everything on the Internet, and without Page, Google would not have achieved much of it.

Once, when asked by Fortune magazine what the best piece of advice he had ever been given ...

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